Clement Rodney Hampton-El, also known as Rasheed Hampton, Abdul Rashid Abdullah, and Dr. Rashid (1938 – June 30, 2014) was an American domestic terrorist. A member of the

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, he was one of those convicted in the New York City landmark bomb plot. He testified that in 1988 he went to Afghanistan to help the Muslims there during

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. During his trial in 1995, he admitted that he trained volunteer soldiers planning a mission to defend Bosnian Muslims against Serbian aggression - "Project Bosnia". In 1992 and 1993 he made several trips to Europe and Asia, raising over $150,000 to start the volunteer Muslim-militia project. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison for his involvement in New York bomb plot.Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11
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Life

Hampton-El was born in the United States in 1938. He lived in an apartment in the

Midwood Midwood is a neighborhood in the south-central part of the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded on the north by the Bay Ridge Branch tracks just above Avenue I and by the Brooklyn College campus of the City ...

section of

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for 25 years. His neighbors described him as quiet, but nice - he used to buy candy for the neighborhood children. He worked as a

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in a Brooklyn hospital. Hampton-El died in prison on June 30, 2014, aged 76.

References

External links

Legal case profile: USA v. Omar Ahmad Ali Abdel-Rahman et al.: 93-CR-181-KTD
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